Formally known as Cloud Gate and nicknamed The Bean for its resemblance to a jelly bean, the Millennium Park sculpture was designed by the London-based, Bombay-born artist Anish Kapoor. Thirty-three feet high and weighing 110 tons, it first went on view when the park opened in 2004 and quickly achieved iconic status because of its mesmerizing, distorted reflections of people and Chicago's skyline.